Welcome to Stressful Blogging 101
Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to embark on a quest to decipher a syllabus for a free course on Stressful Blogging 101.
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Should you choose to enroll, your first assignment is to dissect every line of the following poem and contrast it with its linked post. Don’t necessarily look for the obvious. The headline is not always The Event.
If you haven’t droppped out at this point, the second assignment for Stressful Blogging 101 is to identify the type of poem and search within this blog for another example.
Grades for the course will be given out at the end of the term.
In order to pass Stressful Blogging 101, you just have to attain the right mind-set.
Off you go, then.
Something in my head is wrong
Throbbing tension, water cannon
Restraining order crushing stimuli
Ears burning
Senses dimming
Snap! maniacal vertigo
Frothing foaming Saint Vitus duel
Utter mental catacomb:
Lethal.
Bid this twisted, braided pain adieu
Loosen the psychotic pressure cuff
Open my bloodshot eyes
Glean the harvest into sheaves
Gathered from my lyric Muse
Inspiration, crystal clear
Nowhere is the lesson better taught:
Grand were the mountains worn down by simple waves.
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Stressful Blogging 101 was a posting challenge from John Sullivan of BloggerLuv.com which, sadly, no longer exists.
The actual challenge was to see who would rank the highest for the keyword Stressful Blogging 101. I concede one point by making another: focus on what you’re good at doing. There may still be stress, but it is the honest sweat of a labor of love.
For me, stressful blogging comes, not from struggling to crank out content, but as a result of the effort of producing something memorable, useful or clever, such as a thematic double acrostic poem.
Much of the joy of creating things with words lies in frolicking word play. Take another look at the tenth line of the poem. If you know that the French word for bread is pain, you’ll appreciate the tomfoolery hidden there. On a serendipitous note, reading the line as “Farewell to french bread” would lead to a surprise that only Google can provide.
Very creative! I love it! I’m going to have to come back and check out all those links.
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Thanks, Melinda. Please do come back and enjoy the coursework, LOL
Cheers,
Mitch
Wow you are creative!! I am checking the links now but I think I am gonna look like one of those pics soon:)
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Hi Jenny,
Thanks! But, please, don’t stress out here, my insurance only covers plagiarism. LOL
Cheers,
Mitch
All I could think of was rapping. You are very crafty and got mad writing skills. I admire that.
I think you won the challenge..my hat is off to you!
Take care,
Evelyn
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Hi Evelyn, nice to see you here!
Thanks for the compliments. I think John will win, since it’s a linking challenge.
But it’s all good fun.
Cheers,
Mitch
Oh Shizzle guess I didn’t realize what Johns challenge was. Oh well I’m not very good at anchoring for keywords. Though one of my blogs (fashion) has nice google landings. Quite a few post seem to make the front page anyway but don’t ask me how. As for lees shizzle I didn’t necessarily give up keyword approach it’s just not that important to me with that blog. That blog is just what our assignment is for to me, A stress reliever blog. Of course you can tell I post about anything on there and go at it sometimes but I also have much fun doing it.
As for your post here. Very Creative Mitch. I am a big fan of self poetry. Others may not like mine to swell but I like doing it occasionally. And when I popped in here and began reading I thought wow I like this post.
Nice job Mitch!!!
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Hi Lee! Thanks for visiting. You know what? When I started, I just was doing the linking part but the anchor text actually provided the inspiration for the format of the post
Here’s what I do to learn about linking: watch John. I study everything he does. I expect him to thrash us all in this challenge, but like you said, writing in the blog was the payoff for me.
I saw your poetry about fighting wars – that was deep.
I’ll be back for more, fo shizzle
Cheers,
Mitch
Mitch, nice job with your stressful post. I most likely will publish mine by Monday. It’s been a busy weekend which hasn’t left that much time for writing.
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@Moondancer, thanks! I’ll be looking for yours.
@Rose, you got it on the first pass so that counts
Thanks for visiting.
Cheers,
Mitch
It’s a double acrostic poem.
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Opps, just reading this again I see where you said it was a double acrostic poem. lol
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On Stumbleupon, delicious – it’s a great post and worthy of a lot more attention. People really do need to stick to what they’re good at, and develop confidence from there.
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Thanks, Ashok! It’s really tough, though, because we all like a challenge. In addition, sometimes we listen to the wrong people and naively believe that something is more simple than it is.
Cheers,
Mitch
Hi Mitch,
Great article, great way of associating each letter of “stressful blogging” with a sentence, great idea and funny sentences but true. You’re very creative and awesome. Congratulations and thanks for sharing this!
Best regards,
Maria
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Hi Maria!
This was a blogging “contest”, sort of. I decided to just do my own thing, though.
Thanks for your wonderful compliments!
Cheers,
Mitch